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Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

Barbara Tuchman

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If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Compromise
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Closing Doors
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Evoke
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Views Years
That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Century Church
No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Europe
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Cards
When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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Untrustworthy
Completeness is rare in history.

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Completeness is rare in history.
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Completeness
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

BARBARA TUCHMAN

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Medieval
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Reform relief
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

BARBARA TUCHMAN

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
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